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Last week I wanted to report a bug on a Sourceforge project. I could choose between logging in with a Sourceforge ID, or with an OpenID. I thought that, since I had neither, perhaps getting an OpenID might be the more universally useful approach. So it took me almost half an hour to read up on what an OpenID is, and how to make it work... Eventually, I got me one.

So happily, I used it to log into Sourceforge... It worked. And next, it required me to get a Sourceforge account.

But the problem was that Ubuntu kept thinking I owed them something and that I should jump through hoops to try to remedy their problems. I'm a happy Mandriva (Cooker) user myself, and while I'm trying to promote FOSS in general, I'm glad I have enough options to choose from.

When you hit submit, one of those nice CSS-powered dialog boxes (such as use.perl is now using for login) appears and says "We haven't seen you before, please enter a password to log in next time." You enter a passwo

Some recent sites - I forget which - integrate account generation into the first time you use the site, which makes it a seamless experience. Pretty simple - enter your bug text, and email address; after you submit, it asks you to pick a password, and there you have it, a user account. I wish more sites would (hear of and) adopt this model.

Secondary gripe: the "repeat your password" box. Most people are fairly good at typing and this only serves as an annoyance. Whatever site it was that introduced me to